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IIRC, Arrington is an ardent follower of Libertarianism

There are some non-programmers in my team who use excel to generate bash scripts because they find the bash for-loop syntax too hard

This is exactly what I was looking for since around a month now.

Other amazing Python answers by the same guy:

What is a metaclass in Python - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metaclas...

Understanding Python decorators - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-pyth...

Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?

Agree with you on the Google not caring about the product at all. I am so dependent on Google Voice right now to the extent that I don't even know my real number. But Google's approach to Voice is scaring me more with every passing month and year. I even switched to Sprint because they have carrier integration with Voice but even that is a half-hearted integration: - Text messages arrive after random delays. - My outgoing number switches to the Sprint number if I am on call roaming. - When I am logged in to gmail on my computer, it is always unpredictable where it is going to route my incoming call - to my phone or to gmail. - Some services don't consider the Google Voice number to be a valid number (for e.g. I had problems recently trying to get FiOS to recognize my Google Voice number)

This sounds like best plans for computing in general, not just scientific computing

The irony is that the current submission's title needs to change from "Yehuda Katz..." to "Joshua Stein..."

He links to https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... from the projects page

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News."

EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features

There are so many things a camera could do that it can't right now: * Sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter * Post processing pictures (like Instagram) * Automatic backup to Dropbox * Live stream videos

The section in the penal code should have read "deliberately letting your religious feelings get hurt and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community." instead of "deliberately hurting religious feelings and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community."

That is because you were just seeing the output of Google Glass's camera, not seeing what gets shown on the Glass's display. It may already be showing the Maps overlay for all you know.

I fail to see how this is a MITM attack

See this video related to what you just said. It is a clip from a BBC documentary about how a tribe has different color names than us and how it affects their ability to find an odd color out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I

If the missing ads and side bars is really what your post is alluding to, then googling for "Apple forcibly" http://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+forcibly also gives you the same result.

HN may be interested to know that Anand is a brand ambassador for NIIT, a computer education company from India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT). AFAIK this is the only brand he endorses.

The logo look like it's made of Apple TVs :)

Does anyone know the library that is used to plot the graphs dynamically?

Wouldn't both companies have in house lawyers fighting the case? In which case the lawyer fees would be just their salaries?

The term you are looking for is 'zero-sum game'

Can someone explain to me how links to copyright content come under DMCA? Twitter is most definitely not hosting the copyright content? Why are they even at the receiving end of takedown requests?

After seeing Wikipedia and Google, I am convinced that this means the end of SOPA and PIPA for now. Am I being really naive in thinking that Congress is not going to try another attempt at any internet regulation till at least the elections are over?

OPs headline is misleading. The court is just ordering the websites to remove a particular instance of "derogatory" material. Is it that bad? Users can do this themselves on many of these sites by marking the material offensive. I read the article twice and it doesn't seem as if the court has asked all 21 websites to screen all content by February 6, but only remove the particular cases submitted by the petitioner.

In my team, in the last 3 months, 6 people have bought Androids vs 2 buying the iphone 4s

s/years/days

You mean like MG Siegler?